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Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under
I'm OK with that, if only to protect my mental health. I will say this though AA should have been fired for that trade alone. And the ban on mentioning that trade starts now.
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I completely understand the move. Jays were drawing flies at home games, Jays fans were the most disgruntled they have been in the history of the franchise, and the fallout was begin to hit Rogers. They needed a team that could compete quickly and have some known names to temporarily right the ship.Syndergaard was their big chip to play and he wasn't going to be MLB ready for a couple years.
What I will never understand is why they used this chip to acquire a gimmick pitcher like Dickey. The guy was in his late 30's, had only a year and a half of quality performances under his belt which were the product of the fact that he is tailor made for the National League Game (spacious outfields, less reliance on power hitters, and a practically guaranteed out every 9 at-bats). In his CY-Young year Dickey was throwing an 82-84 mph fastball which allowed him to mess with hitters. There's no way the Jays should have expected him to maintain that velocity at his age and his questionable arm health issues.
In my opinion, the long story made shot is moving Syndergaard made sense at the time. The return they got did not. With the package they sent to the Mets, the Jays could have had any available starting pitcher they wanted. Choosing RA Dickey was ridiculous. We'll never know AA's reasoning for that, but I would suspect it was financially driven. Dickey was coming off a Cy Young and could be signed at a reasonable contract with a very limited term given his age and history.